Competing university teams returned to Juniper's OpenLab on Saturday, February 2nd to deliver their presentations and Junos Space solutions in the SDN/Network Programmability Hackathon. Working against a baseline problem statement, the students certainly took innovative liberties and flexed their creative muscle in discussing the problem, the opportunity and alternatives for addressing the real-world problem, while delivering strong presentations and solutions during the last day of 10-day event.

Our six hackathon student teams walked us through network management solutions that drew on multiple engineering domains and exhibited quite a bit of creativity in a short time window. Here are four observations about the network applications that they built.